Re: F-22 ADA Programming

[Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>]

On 07-Nov-14 21:45, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message
> news:m2p0g5$4d0$1@dont-email.me...
> ...
>> Denying one's own comfort or convenience for the greater good is generally
>> the
>> essence of ethical problems. As such, rather than use an error- and
>> security-vulnerability-filled browser, you should deny yourself the
>> functionality while you write a better browser in Ada and give it away.
>
> FYI,, I seriously considered doing that years ago. I built my own mail and
> web servers in Ada for this reason, and browsers were the next frontier. The
> effort of a passable rendering engine stopped me (I wasn't going to support
> Javascript or plugins of any kinds, as they were precisely what I wanted to
> avoid in the first place, so the effort there was irrelevant).
>
>                                       Randy.

Ah, that's rather disappointing -- I should think a solid browser would 
be excellent, as for JavaScript I understand not wanting to write an 
engine for /that/... (I'd actually like to write a Flash-Player, but I 
keep running into little gotchas in the spec and getting discouraged) 
but I think that an Ada-based/Ada-like scripting language would be an 
excellent thing (esp. if it was type-/source-compatible w/ the backend 
[true] Ada) and provided facilities for DSA, modules, versioning on 
modules, and consistency-checks.